Bee lodged head first in kitchen sink hole

[Montea]

I don’t know how it’s happened but I just poured out the water from last night in the dish bowl and noticed there’s a bee lodged in the plug hole head first. I doubt it’s alive but I also don’t want to touch it I am so queasy about these things. I feel SO grossed out

Poor thing! You have to at least try, roll up a piece of kitchen roll into a stick and gently try to ease it out if you really cant touch it.

Poor Bee, sadly it is probably dead but just in case try and ease it out gently and pop it somewhere outside to dry out.
Its just a bee and won't hurt you (unless you have a fatal allergy), nothing gross about it.

its In such a difficult position I don’t know how to get it out

Can you post a picture? What about wrapping your thumb and forefinger in cling film and gently pulling it out?

what disgusts me the most is that I don’t see how I can get it out in one part

Tweezers?

have you tried running the tap to see if he'll float out?

Tongs?

Get some tweezers or similar and very gently ease it out
Looks pretty dead sadly so I don't think you can hurt it

Can you not just prod him through and down the drain? He won't be alive, sadly.

I got it out, it flinched which made me scream but might have been a reflex and still dead. I put it on a kitchen towel outside and gave it sugar water, but it still looks stiff dead to me

At least you’ve given it a chance @Montea not much else you can do

I would still put it outside on the windowsill. It most likely is dead but it will give it a chance if it knocked out, weighed down by water.

You're a braver woman than I am. I would have been tempted to try high force water to force it through.

They can definitely appear to be dead then spring back to life once they've calmed down a bit or refuelled.

Well done for managing it despite feeling squeamish. I love bees but if a moth were lodged in a plughole I would find that very difficult indeed.

Good job OP.

I felt like being sick. I screamed multiple times.

Use tweezers then sterilise them after.

Lol. I wouldn't think to sterilize the tweezers. It's been in the washing up bowl. It is a Very Clean Bee.

Well done

The things we have to do!
I had a wasp nest in my kitchen wall one time. It was a visible gap near the window ledge. I hummed it up with blue tac until the old double glazing windows were replaced!

*gummed

The bee is stiff dead and somehow its almost cut in half

I was just coming here for an update. Poor bee. You did everything you could.

Poor little soul! Good on you for trying!